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Los Angeles Home Planning Institute New Knot Seal",

The Home Planning Institute of Los Angeles, sponsored by the Board of Education, Chamber of Commerce and the allied building industries, has completed plans to again present its program in Adult Evening Schools of Los Angeles. Intended to provide the prospective owner-builder with all the information necessary for an intelligent approach to modern home design, the Institute sessions will be the panel-discussion type, similar to the "Chicago Round Table" radio program. Follo'wing, the meeting will be opened to group participation.

Qualified experts from the co-sponsoring trades, industries, professions and financing institutions, will handle each of the several subjects comprising the four sessions. The full program will be repeated in three schools, selected because of their central locations.

The program is an educational project, oft'ering to all citizens, witl.rout cost, guidance in home planning, from the selection of the lot to financing the dwelling. More than 6,000 persons attended the meetings last year and the demand for further such courses has been very heavy. The Institute is a non-profit organization, designed to aid the layman in the complex process of constructing a home.

Shipyard Site Sold

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. has purchased and Banks Shipbuilding Co. site at North Bend, ing the war the yard constructed small vessels.

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Portland, Oregon, December 2Z-After four years intensive research during which over 600 sealers were tested, the Western Pine Association laboratory announces the development of a practically colorless, synthetic-resin knot sealer which is now ready for use on buildings.

In laboratory and field tests it has out-performed all other known sealers and methods. Tests indicate that exterior house paint u'ill not discolor, crack, scale or peel, nor will alligatoring develop on the treated area during the usual period of years between repainting. The sealer should be applied to the knots before painting.

Known as Formula WP-578, it is being manufactured and distributed by a number of nationally known paint and varnish manufacturers and is available to the trade. A full description of this new sealer, its formulation, and the names of firms producing it, can be obtained from the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, C)regon. Ask for Laboratory Note No. 21.

New Yard qt Arvin

Arvin Lumber Co. has been organized as a retail lumber and building material business at Arvin, Calif.

C. B. Dickey is president. Fl. T. Barlow and J. R. Nolan are vice presidents, and Leon Hermitte is secretary and treasurer.

Claude C. Chapelle, formerly with Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co., is manager of the new yard.